Tutorials
Models and Metamodels in Data and Software Integration
by Dr. Ralf-Detlef Kutsche
Abstract.
Integration of data from heterogeneous distributed sources, and, at the same time, integration of software components and systems, in order to achieve 'full functional' interoperability, is one of the major challenges in software industry today, because it is the major IT cost driving factor, and it is a challenging research area as well.
During the past years, the relevance of model based approaches to these challenging and -- more than that -- extremely time and money consuming integration tasks have come into special focus of software engineering methods. OMG's keywording Model Driven Architecture MDA has brought model based approaches into wide observation of software industry and science.
This tutorial will provide a wide overview of model-based software & information engineering. In particular, we shall exploit our methodology towards model-based integration of data and information sources, as well as integration of software components.
We shall demonstrate model-building, modeling, and meta-modeling access to the given integration tasks, starting from theory, and ending up with concrete examples from our large German research initiative BIZYCLE in conjunction of academia (CIS/TU Berlin) and industry (SMEs in the region of Berlin/Germany).
Author bio
Dr. Ralf-Detlef KUTSCHE, Academic Director at University of Technology of Berlin, has graduated with a diploma degree in applied mathematics and holds a Ph.D. in computer science.
His scientific background of more than 20 years covers as well theory (logic and theorem proving) as also practice (software engineering & information systems).
Since 1994 he was responsible for research in the area of "Heterogeneous Distributed Information Systems" as deputy chair of the research group "Computation and Information Structures CIS" at TU Berlin, being - at the same time - member of the board of leaders of the "Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems Engineering ISST" (chair & director: Prof. Herbert Weber). Since October 2005, after Weber's retirement, he is heading CIS research group provisionally, besides his original focus on science management, bridging the gap between industry and science.
His present scientific profile focuses on- Heterogeneous, Distributed Information Systems- Object-based Middleware & Integration Platforms - (Meta-) Models, Methods and Techniques in "Continuous Software Engineering" ...focussing on "Model-Based Software & Semantic Information Integration"
Duration
All day.
Biologically-inspired Systems
by By Dr. Thang N. Nguyen (USA) and Dr. Tony Phan (Australia)
Abstract.
This is a partial treatment on biologically-inspired computing (BiC), more specifically biologically-inspired systems (BiS).
We start with a BiC landscape in terms of the disciplines that are created, with their corresponding founding fathers from Alan Turing time to the present. Then we look deeper from each of the two major perspectives: biological and computer science on the basis of why the discipline was created, who the founding father or fathers (s) were, what solutions it has offered to which problems, where and when, and finally how the biological organizations, processes, and/or mechanisms were mimicked with focus on some important disciplines.
We next address the various important architectures borrowed from those in biology and report on biologically-inspired applications in different domains.
We show and discuss an example of the making of BIS. We conclude with some important remarks on challenges and trends of BiC and BiS.
Dr. Nguyen's bio
Dr. Thang N. Nguyen is currently an associate professor, California State University Long Beach.
He received his B.S. in electrical engineering from Lava1 University (Quebec, Canada), his M.S. in information and computer science from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and his Ph.D. in information technology and engineering from George Mason University.
He has been a system programmer, software developer, professional services systems engineer, marketing support representative, instructor and manager during his professional tenure at IBM and other software development firms. He has actively published in journals (IBM Journal R&D, Information & Management, Communications of the AIS) and in major international conferences (IEEE SMC, DSI, AMCIS, etc.).
His research interest has been in robotics and automation, decision science, software engineering, business-IT integration, e-business integration and biologically-inspired computing.
Dr. Phan's bio
Dr. Tuan (Tony) Phan is a medical researcher with expertise in bone molecular biology and hormonal control of the human body.
His research has directly resulted in a full patent to produce a drug that can control tumour-like growth of organs. Dr Phan has won many prestigious awards, including the Barry Marshall Research Award and the Young Investigator of the Year for the American Society of Bone and Mineral Research. He has published extensively in high quality medical journals as well as in international conferences, and co-authored of book chapters.
He graduated from UWA with a Bachelor of Medical Science (Honours) and with a Doctor of Philosophy (Medicine) before commencing his postdoctoral research at the Oral Health Centre of Western Australia.
Dr Phan has held many academic positions including an assistant professor at the University of Western Australia, a manuscript reviewer at the Journal of Biotechnology Progress and chair of the research excellence committee at the University of Western Australia.
Duration
All day.